True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
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True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
capability in the world. It must therefore be a net boost to wealth.
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
University of Massachusetts economist James Boyce, Indian environmentalists Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain, and others, this work has found that income and human well-being expand when degraded land, water, and ecosystems are cleaned up and repurposed by the people who live on and around them.
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
The benefits of more vacation days or shorter hours are durable, remaining even when others also gain free time.
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
The average U.S. beef diet emits the equivalent in greenhouse gases of 1,800 miles of driving, and Americans eat more beef (ninety-four pounds in 2005) than people anywhere except Argentina.
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
The New Economics Foundation’s Happy Planet Index incorporates ecological footprint, life satisfaction measures, and life expectancy into a single metric that measures how efficiently nations are using natural resources to produce happy lives (or “happy life years”). Costa Rica tops the list, with its 99
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
Center for a New American Dream, a nonprofit devoted to making American lifestyles socially and ecologically sustainable.
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
rejecting passionate consuming because the thrill of the mall is gone is about as sensible as not eating because the fast-food culture is so awful.
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
environmental impact is a product of three things: population, affluence, and technology.
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
In 1991, 316 million pounds of worn clothing were exported from the United States to the rest of the world. By 2004 exports stood at 1.1 billion, an almost fourfold rise.